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The majority of the popular stream services such as Twitch.tv, Justin.tv, GOMTV.net, etc, display their streams through the flash plugin. Because of that a lot of users might experience high CPU usage generated by the flash plugin as well as causing the stream to lag more because of the overhead that is created.

Thankfully there is a way to watch those streams directly in your VLC player with the use of Livestreamer.

Livestreamer currently supports the following services:

Name

Live

VOD

Notes

Aliez.tv

Yes

No

Azubu.tv

Yes

No

Cast3D.tv

Yes

Yes

Dailymotion

Yes

No

Euronews.com

Yes

No

Filmon.com

Yes

Yes

Only SD (HD requires authentication)

Freedocast

Yes

No

GOMTV.net

Yes

Yes

Requires authentication.

Hashd.tv

Yes

Yes

ILive

Yes

–

Livestation

Yes

–

Livestream

Yes

–

Both new and old site supported.

Mips

Yes

–

Owncast.me

Yes

–

SVT Play

Yes

Yes

Videos may be geo-restricted to Sweden.

Twitch/Justin.tv

Yes

Yes

Possible to authenticate for access to protected streams.

UStream TV

Yes

Yes

Veetle.com

Yes

Yes

Weeb.tv

Yes

–

Requires rtmpdump with K-S-V patches.

YouTube

Yes

Yes

YYCast

Yes

–

The usage of Livestreamer is fairly easy. First you will need the link of the stream you would like to watch. Example: twitch.tv/<streamer id>

Then we need to find which, if any, streams are available, this is done by passing the stream link to Livestreamer as follows.livestreamer.exe twitch.tv/<streamer id>

The above example will output the streams that are available to watch, assuming the stream link is valid and currently live. The output will be something similar to this if the above requirements are met:

Available streams:mobile_high(best),mobile_low(worst),mobile_medium,mobile

_mobile

The part we are interested about are the “available streams”. Assuming available streams are found we can simply execute Livestreamer again with the link and the quality you want to watch as parameters.

Example:livestreamer.exe twitch.tv/<streamer id> mobile_high

Alternative you can use the words in the parenthesis (best/worst etc).

And there you have it. Livestreamer should then launch VLC for you and start displaying the stream.

Note: Keep in mind that by viewing the streams through VLC you will not receive any ads the streamers will play. If you wish to support the streamers please consider running the stream on a separate browser in the background with the lowest quality while setting it on mute so it won’t bother you while still supporting your favorite streamers.